Shalom All:

The practices for what will be in the USofA are being tested.  Note that even those prepared for siege will not succeed UNLESS The Father intervenes.

Deborah's post (16 Aug 2005)
"Israeli Expulsion:  Cages at the ready to remove settlers who flout deadline"

Cages at the ready to remove settlers who flout deadline
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1549302,00.html
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Each of the squads assigned to clear houses is made up of a combination of 17 soldiers and police officers. A policeman will knock on the door of each home, inform the residents that they are breaking the law and ask them to board a bus. They will be permitted a few minutes to gather belongings.

The squads have been practising for weeks what will happen if the residents refuse to move. Adults will be pinned down, with one soldier or policeman on each limb, and lifted out. Only female soldiers and police officers will arrest women or carry children on to the bus.

The authorities believe the settlers have prepared several tactics to resist, such as retreating to one room, sitting on the floor and clinging tightly to each other. Others may barricade themselves in. If so, the squads will go through the windows or hammer their way through the walls.

The removal squads will not be armed and several of the settlements have responded to appeals from the military to hand in their weapons. At the first sight of a gun, the process will be halted and a special negotiating team brought in.

The army has developed an alternative to rubber bullets, which sometimes kill, by developing rounds using compressed sand that are not nearly so dangerous.

Groups such as Land of Israel Loyalists have prepared for a long siege "against the expulsion and transfer plot", with stockpiles of food.

Some of the settlers and their supporters are expected to retreat to the roofs of their homes, or the top of the few multi-storey buildings, such as council offices and a large religious school in Neve Dekalim. The military considers it dangerous for both sides to have to drag resisters down stairs, so they will be forced into large yellow cages lowered on to the rooftops, locked in and swung into the arms of police waiting on the ground.

The contents of homes will be locked in containers and shipped to a location in the Negev desert for collection. Squads will move in to dismantle the parts of the houses that can be removed, such as water tanks and solar panels, and remove the asbestos found in many of the homes.

Diggers will cave in the roof of each home to make it uninhabitable, but the bulk of the destruction and removal of the rubble will be left to the Palestinians who are keen to use it to provide work.

Synagogues, religious schools and other sensitive buildings will be dismantled as far as possible - with roofs, door frames and windows being removed. Other public buildings, such as administration offices, will be left for the Palestinians.
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Dianne
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